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Research & Art Published:

Aalto students' public art projects featured at award-winning ANTI-Festival

Last week in Kuopio, a fascinating collection of public art projects was presented by students from Aalto University's Department of Art and Media.
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Campus, Studies Published:

New event concept: Aalto ARTS Student Show 2024

The Aalto ARTS Student Show brings together a selection of student projects from all over the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Artwork with green flowers
Appointments Published:

New professors appointed to the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

A summary of all new professors appointed between end of year 2023 to August 2024.
Participants at Eloseminaari
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Eloseminaari brought the Aalto ARTS community together to discuss the future of the school

Eloseminaari, the opening event of the academic year at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, was held at Kulttuurikasarmi event space in the centre of Helsinki.
Colorful illustrations to the environmentla citizen's playbook
Awards and Recognition Published:

DAMY recognition awards for Aalto graduates

The Friends of Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture DAMY awards a new prize, The Future Award, which highlights talented students' views on sustainable and resource-efficient design and visual culture.
Finnish band PMMP performing for a big crowd in Ruisrock festival
Research & Art Published:

Tomi Rantanen uses design to tackle gender equality issues in the music industry

Rantanen's master's thesis aims to bring about structural changes and envisions a gender equality shift for women and non-binary people by 2030.

The Long Read by Aalto ARTS

Longform stories, in-depth features and profiles, data visualizations and more coming up - enjoy our webmag!

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Creativity Unfolded

Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and more. Read and join the conversation.

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Aalto student – New Student Guide replaces Into

Into.aalto.fi has been migrated to the Aalto.fi site, and the new Student Guide contains information and news for students

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Equality and diversity at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University is committed to promoting diversity, equality and non-discrimination in all its activities. We aim to provide a non-discriminatory, gender-equal and accessible environment in which employees and students with diverse backgrounds and duties receive equal treatment and are free to participate without discrimination in university activities.

Students at campus

Meet our people

Professor Marco Steinberg behind his desk

Professor Marco Steinberg: ’We need to change, and we need to do it now’

Professor of Practice in Strategic and Industrial Design says that the world’s most pressing issues, like climate change, won’t be addressed by tinkering at the edges of today’s solutions but rather require a more fundamental redesign.

News
Henrika Yliriskun väitös taidekasvatuksen alalta tarkastettiin Aalto-yliopistossa maaliskuussa 2021.

‘Environmental art education should address the problem of human-centeredness’

‘I claim’ series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Henrika Ylirisku researches the premises of environmental art education.

News
Man in sunny winter cityscape

Aarni Kapanen illustrates Dudes & Feelings podcasts

Fighting toxic masculinity with a podcast and the help of Visual Communication Design.

News
Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed at WEF. Photo: Mikko Raskinen

Julia Lohmann: ‘We know too much and do too little’

Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.

News
Karin Krokfors, kuva: Sanna Lehto

'We must look to the past, for a lesson in designing buildings for the future'

Architect Karin Krokfors says buildings should be designed to be adaptable over time. And that history holds plenty of examples for us to study.

News
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Building interdisciplinary connections through a new joint position

This September will be a start of building a new connection between disciplines as Sebastian Schlecht takes on the position as the professor of practice in Sound in Virtual Reality.

News

Aalto Art and Design Cases

Aalto Design Cases is a platform for activity-based creativity and practice-based research in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

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Nyang'oro Girls Dormitory, a project by Hollmén Reuter Sandman

Prominent art at Aalto University

Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.

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Events

Visual designer Merle Karp made this collage with AI, using photos by Mikko Raskinen, Anne Kinnunen and Aleksi Poutanen.
Lectures and seminars, Networking

Artificial Creativity – Aalto LASER Talks

Is artificial intelligence simply a tool, or does it possess creative capabilities?
On orange background in bold black text "From Lab to Market" and a black-and-white photo of a bridge. On the side org logos.
Lectures and seminars, Networking, Students

From Lab to Market (external link)

An event series bringing together research and entrepreneurship.
Lines of Descent: Data visualisation tools to empower genetic research
Exhibitions

Lines of Descent (external link)

Lines of Descent: Data visualisation tools to empower genetic research.
In this exhibition, you will have the opportunity to explore the impact of
Finland's genetic legacy and how it is reshaping the future of medical research.
Lines of Descent: Data visualisation tools to empower genetic research
Exhibitions

Lines of Descent (external link)

Lines of Descent: Data visualisation tools to empower genetic research.
In this exhibition, you will have the opportunity to explore the impact of
Finland's genetic legacy and how it is reshaping the future of medical research.
ARTS 150

Donate to the 150-year-old School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Let's build a more sustainable future
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